Collector’s Years of Digging, Diving for Bottles on Display at New Hampshire Museum (4/26/13)
It is not every day that a person can dig old trash out of the ground and have it wind … More >>

Cobalt Blue Bottles: Who Are You Calling ‘Old?’ (2/1/13)
The most popular color collected by antique bottle collectors is cobalt blue. Maybe not so much for advanced collectors, but … More >>

Early American Bottles’ Pontils Tell Where and When they were Made (1/3/13)
Collectors of early American bottles will all tell you that there is a clear line of delineation set during the … More >>

Fashionable Collectibles from the Top: Fancy, Fascinating Victorian Hat Pins (11/13/12)
Antique Victorian hat pins—long wire stems that attached to the top of a fancy woman’s hats, adorned at the top, … More >>

The News on the Wire is Glass Telegraph Insulators Offer Collectible Cash (10/23/12)
Something you see for sale at almost any flea market or tag sale are antique telegraph insulators. These are the … More >>

Read Those Lips… There’s Treasure in Your Back Yard! (9/17/12)
Almost any time I mention to someone that I dig for antique bottles, the first words out of their mouths … More >>

19th-Century Botany in a Bottle—Highly Desired Medicinal History in Glass (8/28/12)
In all antiques and collectables, the more interest there is in an object, the more valuable it becomes. In the … More >>

Antique ‘Hair Bottles’ Prove Great-Great-Grandmother had Bad Hair Days, Too (6/1/12)
There are not many of society’s problems that have had as little progress shown as the problem of bad hair. … More >>

Digging on Antique Bottles: Start a Collection with Glass Ink Pots (5/8/12)
Many advanced collectors of early American glass bottles will tell you the category they first started collecting was ink bottles. … More >>